When Janice was in high school, she had achieved a reputation as a person who studied much of the time and who rarely, if ever, partied with her buddies. She seemed driven to excel academically so that she would be able to pursue a career that she not only benefited from but one that also gave her some security from a financial standpoint.

After much contemplation, ultimately she came to a decision that she wanted to be a trial lawyer. In order to reach this goal, nonetheless, she would first have to complete four years of undergraduate education.

After Completing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Nationally Ranked Undergraduate University as a Springboard For a Career as an Attorney

After Janice completed high school, she applied to and was accepted into an outstanding program in economics. Her reasoning for this decision was that this area of study would be good preparation for law school and wouldn’t be similar to the bulk of law school applicants who choose political science as their undergraduate minor or major.

After graduating with a 3.6 GPA at the undergraduate level, she applied to and was accepted at a well known law school at one of the Big East universities.

She was energized by her legal studies but every now and then she was “up to her ears” with all the work that had to be undertaken at law school. Akin to the way she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, nevertheless, she made pals without much effort but almost never got involved in social events until the term was done.

After Being Jubilant With the Fact That She Had Done a Super Job on Her Exams, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Do Something Besides Going to College For a Change

Janice was the type of person who worked in a diligent manner to finish what she was doing and then would take some time off when she could. It just so happens, nonetheless, that a large number of the things she did between school sessions or during her summer vacations did not involve drinking. Needless to say, Janice was anything but a partygoer. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were finished and appreciating the fact that she had done a super job on her exams, nevertheless, she wanted to take a respite from school and have some fun.

Drinking at a Local Tavern Leads to Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms, Calling The Emergency Number, and a Visit to A Drug and Alcohol Rehab Hospital

So Janice and several of her pals went to a local watering hole where they had a few mixed drinks. As the hours went by, Janice continued to drink without having to worry about term papers or tests the next day. In truth, Janice told her classmates how nice it was to ”get down” and drink with her law school pals.

As the evening progressed, Janice and her classmates continued to drink. If truth be told, she was having so much fun that she didn’t want the night to end. It was almost as if she was making up for lost time and attempting to compress a year’s worth of excitement into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” it needs to be emphasized, seldom works. Indeed, when Janice went to the powder room and threw up, her friends started to get anxious about her wellbeing.

About twenty minutes later when Janice started to slur her speech, talk in a confused manner, and then become unconscious, however, her pals without delay knew that they needed to call 911 and ask for medical assistance because they thought that Janice was displaying alcohol poisoning symptoms.

Once Janice was in the alcohol treatment hospital, the head doctor validated what her classmates had assumed, that is to say, that Janice had far more alcohol than her body could process and, consequently, she suffered from an alcohol overdose.

After the emergency room treatment team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were evident, Janice was moved to the recovery room. After staying about three hours in recovery, Janice was then moved to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the most critical part of her hospitalization had passed and all of her vital signs were back to normal.

In response to Janice’s situation, her pals attentively telephoned her Mom and Dad. As a consequence, early the next morning, her parents and her favorite pals went to the hospital to visit Janice and look into her medical progress.

Janice Narrowly Escapes Death, is Gratified to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Abusive and Hazardous Manner

Janice was conscious of the fact that she came close to losing her life and, consequently, was gratified to be alive. Her parents were aware how hard she worked at college and how little she permitted herself to socialize with her friends. Nevertheless, they also knew that Janice needed to avoid abusive drinking.

Consequently, they suggested that in the future, whenever a drinking occasion develops, that she always drink responsibly and in moderation. Janice was fine with this and gave her word to her Mother and Father and to her friends that she would never again drink in an irresponsible manner. In Janice’s own words, “I never pondered the fact that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local town newspaper. I now realize that excessive and hazardous drinking is not for me. I pledge that this will never happen again.”

Fortunately, Janice was not only “book smart” but she also had a lot of common sense. Stated differently, she immediately realized that she had made an error and made up her mind that she would never make the same error again. In point of fact, she now knew that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this form of abusive drinking can end in a loss of life.